Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 2/5] driver-model: bus_recan_devices() locking fix

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:02:58PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>  df_02_bus_rescan_devcies_fix.patch
> 
>  bus_rescan_devices() eventually calls device_attach() and thus
> requires write locking the corresponding bus.  The original code just
> called bus_for_each_dev() which only read locks the bus.  This patch
> separates __bus_for_each_dev() and __bus_for_each_drv(), which don't
> do locking themselves, out from the original functions and call them
> with read lock in the original functions and with write lock in
> bus_rescan_devices().
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I cleaned up the formatting a bit in this patch and applied it.

greg k-h
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